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Cotton Pickers' Camp, Nipomo, California
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A young cotton picker in the grim years of the Great Depression. Lange was originally a portrait photographer, as is clear to see. In the 1930s she recorded the working and living conditions in rural America for the Farm Security Administration. In search of work, entire families migrated throughout the country, living in tents, shacks, and automobiles.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineCotton Pickers’ Camp, Nipomo California. 1936-02. Dorothea Lange. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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